Duncan Jones Quotes
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I was christened Duncan Zowie Jones.
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I am absolutely of the videogames generation, starting on the Atari and Commodore 64 and the Amiga.
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I'd love to do a Western.
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'Warcraft' by its very nature is epic in scale.
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I saw the drawbacks of fame as a kid. It wasn't for me.
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I'd done a bachelor's degree, which I'd enjoyed, but I didn't know what to do with my life at the time. I was conflicted, and, being a hopeless romantic, I followed my girlfriend at the time to Vanderbilt, where, obviously, we broke up a couple of months later.
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Be it a video game, comic book, or cheque book, the question always is, 'What story do you have to tell?'
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I was the only kids to have Sony Umatic tapes of the old 'Star Wars.' It was such an old technology; you needed two or three tapes to show one movie, so the kids used to come over to my house, and we would watch 'Star Wars.'
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Sometimes you see films, not just science fiction films, where you get the sense that if the camera were to pan just to the left or the right, all of a sudden you'd be seeing light stands and crew standing around. But with 'Blade Runner,' the beauty of it is that it felt like a real, breathing city.
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My parents did call me Zowie now and then, but then, realising that it drew too much attention, they called me 'Joe'. Then, later, I sort-of co-opted my own name back.
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'Warcraft' is going to be a period of my life I treasure and loathe at the same time.
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I'm not the guy who does slo-mo, or I'm not the guy who does splashing rain or doves flying or anything; that's not me. Every film, I try and make it the way I see it in my head, and it really just depends on the script and the people I'm working with or whatever interests me at that particular time.
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I thought 'The Social Network' was fantastic.
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I think one of the biggest jobs of being a director is getting the casting right.
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I'm a bit of a geek, actually. So I always wanted my first film to be science fiction.
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You could make a film out of just about anything so long as there is a clear vision about the story.
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It seems like the reason that I miss the science fiction from the late '70s and '80s is that at that period, they really were doing interesting, introspective human stories that just happened to take place in science fiction settings.
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My stepmom's from Somalia, my baby sister is African American, my dad was always English, I'm a white man... You may have noticed.
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Terry Gilliam, he's a really interesting and amazing film maker, and when he gets it right, it's really powerful stuff.
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I love the 'what if' nature of sci-fi.
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I was such a big 'Dirty Dozen,' 'Where Eagles Dare,' 'A Bridge Too Far' - all those kinds of movies I loved.
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I was a big fan of Luc Besson and obviously Ridley Scott.
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I took an incredibly roundabout route getting into feature films.
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It felt very fresh to me, and it feels very contemporary - this idea that conflict's not being about good and evil and not necessarily being black and white. If you dig deep enough, you'll often find that people do things because they feel that they have to as opposed to because they are evil.